That was my way of putting itnot very satisfactory A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.
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But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.Thomas Stearns Eliot
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow.
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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.
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Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember usif at allnot as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.
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Do I dare Disturb the universe.
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Where does one go from a world of insanity Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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